Univeristy of South Carolina

Lara Lomicka (PhD, Penn State) is Professor of French and Applied Linguistics in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at the University of South Carolina. She also serves as the Faculty Principal of Preston Residential and Senior Faculty Associate of the Center for Integrative and Experiential Learning.  Her research interests include teacher education, intercultural learning, social media, study abroad, service learning, and computer assisted language learning. She currently serves as the immediate Past-President of the American Association of University Supervisors and Coordinators (AAUSC) and the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers Associations (NFMLTA), and she recently finished a term as the Past-President of the Computer Assisted Language Instruction Consortium (CALICO).